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23 Feb 2018, 4:07 am
At Reuters, Alison Frankel reports that “[b]ecause the justices concluded the statute was not ambiguous in its definition of a whistleblower, the court never had to decide whether to defer to the SEC’s interpretation that Dodd-Frank protection extends to employees who have reported internally and not to the commission. [read post]
13 Jun 2022, 1:05 pm
As is well told in a June 3, 2022 post on Alison Frankel’s On the Case Blog (here), on June 2, 2022, Judge Adams entered a show-cause order suggesting that he is close to appointing new plaintiffs’ attorneys to continue to litigate the case in his court, even though the parties’ settlement, if finalized, resolves all of the related cases, including the one pending before Judge Adams – and even though the settlement prohibits the shareholders… [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 6:37 am
Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal, Alison Frankel of Reuters, and Nathan Hale of Law360 (subscription required) (hat tip: How Appealing) report that the U.S. government has asked the Court to decide whether Congress’s decision to block cost-of-living increases for federal judges violates the Compensation Clause of the Constitution. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 4:40 pm
” As Alison Frankel pointed out at the time on her On the Case blog (here), mandatory arbitration of shareholder claims is not a new idea. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 4:31 pm
Rather, as discussed in Alison Frankel’s October 12, 2010 Am Law Litigation Daily article (here), the defendants relied on three specific issues: "Did BofA have a duty to disclose Merrill's (disastrous) interim financial results; do shareholders of an acquiring comany have causation claims; and are covenants of a private merger agreement actionable under federal securities laws? [read post]
1 Aug 2012, 1:41 am
This latest complaint would appear to be an example of what Alison Frankel, in a July 30, 2012 post on her On the Case blog (here), called the “brawl” developing among plaintiffs’ law firms as they jockey to try to get a piece of the Libor-scandal litigation action. [read post]
21 Jun 2012, 7:45 am
Here are the noteworthy posts, articles and cases of the past week: Trade Secret and Non-Compete Cases and Posts: Capital One has squeezed $20 million from former executives John Kanas and John Bohlsen on the eve of a jury trial that might have prevented their new employer's expansion into New York, reports Reuters' Alison Frankel in her On The Case Blog. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 1:50 am
As discussed in Alison Frankel's June 1, 2010 Am Law Litigation Dailiy article here, the lack of a quorum for en banc review has left the case in a procedural netherword that she aptly describes as "weird. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 12:11 am
Alison Frankel’s February 8, 2012 article on Thomson Reuters News & Insight about the cases can be found here. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 1:00 am
” Alison Frankel has a detailed July 12, 2012 post on the On the Case blog (here) detailing this new securities class action lawsuit. [read post]
14 Jan 2011, 12:09 am
I have to give a lot of credit to Alison Frankel, who edits the columns. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 4:43 am
” At Reuters, Alison Frankel suggests that next term’s Salman v. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 1:05 am
As Alison Frankel points out in her March 11, 2011 Am Law Litigation Daily article about the Credit Suisse settlement (here), the settlement split between the ADR holders and the U.S. common shareholders is similar to the settlement split in the recent $125 million Satyam settlement (about which refer here) in which the ADS holders were to receive $1.38 a share and common shareholders were to receive 6 cents a share. ? [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 2:01 am
Alison Frankel’s June 21, 2011 report about the Orient Paper decision in Thomson Reuters News & Insight can be found here. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 11:44 am
Alison Frankel April 16, 2024, post about the decision on her On the Case blog can be found here. [read post]
3 Feb 2014, 4:12 am
As well-analyzed by Alison Frankel in a January 30, 2014 post on her On the Case blog (here), the plaintiff has urged the court to uphold Basic based on the history of the securities laws and the principles of stare decisis, and out of deference to Congress and regulators. [read post]
6 Dec 2011, 3:27 am
The $75 million Wachovia equity investors’ settlement comes on the heels of the public disclosure of the $315 million Merrill Lynch mortgage-backed securities settlement, which Alison Frankel first reported in a November 18, 2011 article on Thomson Reuters News & Insight (here). [read post]
4 Sep 2019, 3:00 am
This recent blog from Alison Frankel poses an interesting question: if corporations undertake obligations to “stakeholders” & not merely shareholders, what does that mean for the business judgment rule? [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 4:12 am
Alison Frankel has an interesting January 15, 2015 post on her On the Case blog (here) about this aspect of the Freeport settlement, which includes an examination of the question whether a derivative lawsuit settlement with a feature like this to facilitate payment to shareholders might become a new model. [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 11:30 am
As far as I can tell, the coverage of this flap is highly critical of Louis Vuitton for sending the demand letter in the first place, and entirely in favor of the University’s final decision to not cease use; for some examples of the coverage, see Techdirt, Above the Law, Law of Fashion, Eric Goldman’s Technology & Marketing Law Blog, The Volokh Conspiracy, Johanna Blakely, and Alison Frankel’s ON THE CASE. [read post]
